Spamhuntress

While setting up my mailservers, I’ve come across information about how you could retain a copy of EVERY e-mail that comes through the e-mail servers.

There are companies out there that do such things. Or they retain copies of mails to some people. It’s actually quite easy to do.

So here’s yet another warning: Don’t send embarassing or sensitive, or potentially damaging stuff through company e-mail. As a long time e-mail administrator, I’ve seen my share of very embarassing stuff. And that was mostly due to e-mail getting lost somehow.

I’ve seen love letters and randy suggestions I wasn’t supposed to see. And I knew the people involved.

I’m saying this to make people understand that this happens REGULARLY. And it’s not the e-mail administrator’s fault. These things just happen.

Today I’m blessed with being the administrator of a large and well functioning operation, so the amount of embarassing stuff is minimal, actually non-existent. Not a one company server…

But even so, whenever I send an e-mail that is of a sensitive nature in any way, I wonder about the mailservers I send it through. How big are they, how possible is it that it would get read? I’d rather send mail through my own mail server, because I know exactly what kind of monitoring is being done there!

Here’s an article about e-mail policy, and what could happen in case of a lawsuit or routine monitoring:

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